05 Dec 2017
Native Americans Back on the Warpath at Yale
Association of Native Americans at Yale, Cultural Appropriation, Hula Dancing, Shaka, Yale
The Oldest College Daily reports that hula dancing by unauthorized persons is a problem.
The Association of Native Americans at Yale this weekend condemned Shaka, an all-female Polynesian dance group, for appropriating Hawaiian and Tahitian culture and demanded that the group disband.
In a letter posted to its Facebook page Saturday afternoon, ANAAY condemned Shaka for “sexualizing and homogenizing Native [American] peoples, misrepresenting and erasing histories and political realities, and attempting to depoliticize inherently political culture and communities under colonial subjugation.â€
If shimmying in a grass skirt is “cultural appropriation,” how come spouting Marxist BS isn’t?